Temperatures and fluids on faults based on carbonate clumped-isotope thermometry
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We present results from a carbonate clumped-isotope thermometric study of 42 carbonate samples collected within ∼1 m or less of the Mormon Peak detachment, a large-slip Miocene normal fault in the Basin and Range province of southern Nevada. Samples include cataclastic rocks, narrow vein fillings and larger void-filling carbonates. Our results are consistent with earlier measurements of O and C isotopic ratios and fluid inclusion temperatures, and provide independent constraints on the isotopic composition and temperature of both syntectonic and post-tectonic pore waters. The results reveal a wide range of precipitation temperatures (24 to 137 °C) associated with deformation, and indicate that the pore waters were meteoric, with δ^18^O as low as −11.6 permil (VSMOW) and δ^13^C as low as −8.0 permil (VPDB). The results do not provide any direct evidence for high-temperature thermal decarbonation reactions (∼500 to 800 °C) that are widely expected to result from flash heating along upper crustal faults, although they do not rule them out so long as recarbonation occurs at very low temperature, or the products of these reactions are volumetrically minor. The results are difficult to reconcile with recent suggestions that the detachment is the base of one or more catastrophically emplaced, surficial landslides. In concert with other lines of evidence, the data are most simply interpreted as recording deformation and precipitation events through a long history of slip, accompanied by relatively deep (\>3 km) circulation of meteoric pore waters along the detachment plane.
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Clumped isotope data for subsurface carbonates have placed new constraints on fault zones and fluid-structure interactions.
“fault zones and fluid-structure interactions (e.g., Swanson et al. 2012, Budd et al. 2013, Dennis et al. 2019)”
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“In addition, we include 42 additional analyses from Swanson et al. (2012), assigned to the new textural categories defined here (shown as smaller symbols with gray outlines in Figure 4).”
BackgroundResultInfluentialSelf-citationKapcsolt izotópok (clumped isotopes) a földtudományi kutatásokban
Kele, S., & Bajnai, D. (2017) · Földtani Közlöny · doi:10.23928/foldt.kozl.2017.147.2.177 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
Swanson, E., & Wernicke, B. (2017) · doi:10.1130/ges01148.1 · Cited by 1
Self-citationMIRA: a new isotope ratio mass spectrometer for clumped isotope studies of CO2
Paul, D. (2014) · doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.899817.v1 · Cited by 1
“The most widely developed application has been isotope thermometry of carbonate minerals, particularly those that are characteristic of conditions at the surface and in the upper crust of Earth and even Mars [3–7].”
BackgroundSpatiotemporal history of fluid-fault interaction in the Hurricane fault zone, western USA
Koger, J., & Newell, D. (2020) · doi:10.5194/se-2020-69
“Clumped carbonate isotopic methods (47) can yield reliable temperature estimates from fault-zone calcite mineralization (Swanson et al., 2012; Hodson et al., 2016), but are not available for this study.”
Background
- Authors
- Swanson, E. M., Wernicke, B. P., Eiler, J. M., & Losh, S.
- Affiliations
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Swanson, E. M.
- Venue
- American Journal of Science
- Publisher
- American Journal of Science (AJS)
- Published
- 2012-01-01
- Volume
- 312
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-21
- ISSN
- 0002-9599 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2134889797
- Cited by
- 42
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 7.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- American Journal of Science (publishedVersion)
- CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (0911772)
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geophysics › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geophysics › earthquake and tectonic studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
- Keywords
- carbonate clumped isotope thermometry, pore water, meteoric water, cataclastic rocks, fluid inclusions, landslides, southern Nevada
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